Landfill Methane Check · councils
What does your landfill look like from orbit?
Residents, journalists and regulators can all look at your landfill in public satellite data. We look first, and write back what we find, in language you can put in front of a committee.
How it works
- You name the sites. One to three landfills, open or closed. Their names and roughly where they are is enough
- We look at the open archive over the last two years: Sentinel-2 for point sources, TROPOMI for the larger plumes, wind rotated where it helps
- You get a short written check: what is visible, what is not, what the limits mean for a landfill, and what we would look at next
Worth saying plainly
It is free and there is no obligation. If nothing is visible above the detection limits, the check says exactly that, in writing, which is a useful thing to have on file. Dan does each one himself, so we take two checks a month across all our clients.
What it is not
It is not a compliance measurement and it does not replace your NGER reporting or your licence obligations. Landfill emissions are usually more spread out than a mine vent, and satellites are best at concentrated sources, so part of the check is saying plainly which parts of your site the archive can and cannot speak to. For a closed landfill, it also shows what has changed since capping.
Request the check
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